SAHO global search

1923-2014

Nadine Gordimer

… Apartheid in South Africa. She never considered going into exile but in the 1960s and 1970’s she lectured at … was banned in South Africa, yet she disdained…

B-0008117

1917-2004

Villa Baker

… police surveillance. In 1970 the family went into exile to the United Kingdom. Lewis went first, and Villa and …

B-0097304

1911-1985

Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle

… M. Scott and M. Benson. Later his family joined him in exile. In 1956 his Atteridgeville home in South Africa was …

B-0008609

1949-2016

Rocky Malebane-Metsing

… government. Malebane-Metsing escaped arrest and wen into exile. He joined Umkhonto we Sizwe in Lusaka, and travelled …

B-0008414

1934-2011

Abdool Kader Hassim

… to revive APDUSA to promote political education; fro0m exile,Tabata wanted to attact military recruits to APDUSA and …

B-0008146

1899-1976

Dora Taylor

… she never came back to South Africa until she died in exile. Dora died in England in 1976.  Her other works that …

B-0089634

1955-1983

Thabo Marcus Motaung

… that thousands of students fled the country, heading into exile. Marcus left the country and fled to Swaziland where he …

B-0085550

1916-2014

Epainette Nomaka Mbeki

… at the Rivonia Trial and her three sons went into exile, MaMbeki remained at Mbewuleni. It was a time of deep …

B-0094629

1954-1979

Selaelo Charles 'Dan' Ramusi

… several occasions Ramusi ultimately left South Africa for exile sometime in November/December 1975 to join the African …

B-0075473

1955

Shirley Gunn

… to harass her. As a consequence, she left the country to exile in Botswana where she reported to the ANC office. After …

B-0095599

Ambrose Makiwane

… him wherever he went, he skipped the country and went to exile in Lesotho. From Lesotho he was transported together …

B-0069129

1916-1965

Dr Arthur Elias Letele

… 30 days. As a result of this condition Letele went into exile in Lesotho in 1961. His family soon joined him. He was …

B-0008321

1938-1979

David Sibeko

… Sibeko then left South Africa and joined the PAC in exile in Tanzania. Sibeko was subsequently sent to the …

B-0068453

1916-2015

Sarah Carneson

… effects of stress on the children, Sarah finally went into exile in the United Kingdom in 1968. There she worked in the … political activist, political…

B-0007920

Boy Mvemve

… Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, … activists that was a common occurrence at the…

B-0149403

Mary Butcher Turok

… the country together and spending the next 25 years in exile in various countries, such as England, Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia. [10] Due to their exile, Mary…

B-0150129

Mandla Michael Yende

… in 1976. Phikwane, who had just returned from exile where he had received military training, trained Yende …

B-0149440

1932-2005

Arthur Maimane

… practice his journalism career. In 1958 Maimane went into exile to Ghana to fulfil his ambitions away from the horrors …

B-0008384

1910-2002

Bettie du Toit

… finally left South Africa without a passport and went into exile in 1963. She fled to Ghana and worked for Radio Ghana, …

B-0008034

1945

Paul Stopforth

… abuses, Stopforth moved to the United States in 1988. His exile led him to a path of introspection, where he understood …

B-0009104

1938-2018

Keorapetse William Kgositsile

… Kunene , among others. From 1962 to 1975, he lived in exile in the United States of America (USA). In 1975, … Poet, political activist, author, lecturer,…

B-0097180

1940

Johnson Phillip Mlambo

… his with family before skipping the country to join PAC in exile. He was appointed to the position of Secretary for … for Foreign Affairs for the PAC in…

B-0067961

1920-1995

Harry Themba Gwala

… who later became a prominent figure among SACP members in exile. Gwala joined the  South African Communist Party …

B-0008136

1924

Andimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo

… of the SWAPO party from 1984 to 1991. He went into exile and continued to play a pivotal role in the liberation …

B-0095996

1967-1988

Nontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza

… left her home in Lamontville for good and went into exile to Swaziland. Although she’d write to her mother, … June 1988 while attempting to return to South…

B-0149952

Joseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo

… ‘be removedto  Duiwelskloof under escort.’ He escaped into exile in Lesotho. His banishment order was withdrawn on 16 …

B-0149493

Ngila Micheal Muendane

… of parliament from 1997 till 2000.  During his time in exile, he addressed several organisations on liberatory …

B-0146588

1956

Pumzile Mayapi

… still a student at Fort Hare University. Mayapi went into exile to Lesotho, where he joined uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) with … Member of ANC, MK, exile and…

B-0149222

1948-2020

Ntongela Masilela

… Transvaal (now known as Limpopo Province). A child of exile, he spent most of his life living outside of South … Nairobi, Kenya, which is where his parents…

B-0150368